Friday, September 25, 2026

 

Book Burning

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), Almansor, lines 243-244 (tr. Hal Draper):
                     Where men burn books,
They will burn people also in the end.

                                                     [W]o man Bücher
Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Cf. Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), Letters of Obscure Men I, XXIV (tr. Francis Griffin Stokes):
You may read it, an you will, because I am sending it to you herewith. It seemeth to me that the author and the book ought to be burned together, for it is a monstrous scandal that anybody should compile such a volume.

Vos potestis eum legere si vultis, quia mitto hic eum vobis. Mihi videtur quod autor ille cum suo libro debet comburi, quia est maxime scandalosum quod aliquis debet talem librum compilare.
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